different between agree vs write

English

Etymology

From Middle English agreen, from Old French agreer (“to accept or receive kindly”), from a gré (“favorably”), from Latin ad (“to”) + gratum (“pleasing”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-gr?', IPA^(key): /????i?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /????i/
• Rhymes: -i?
• Hyphenation: a?gree

Verb

agree (third-person singular simple present agrees, present participle agreeing, simple past and past participle agreed)

1. (intransitive) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, a sonnet in The Passionate Pilgrim

     If music and sweet poetry agree.

   • For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

   • The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.

2. (intransitive) To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.

3. (transitive, Britain, Ireland) To yield assent to; to approve.
   • 2011 April 3, John Burke, in The Sunday Business Post:

     Bishops agree sex abuse rules

4. (intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.

   • Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

   • But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

5. (intransitive) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.

6. (intransitive, now always with with) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.

7. (intransitive, grammar) To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.

8. (intransitive, law) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
• This is a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
• The transitive usage could be considered as just an omission of to or upon.
• US and Canadian English do not use the transitive form. Thus "they agreed on a price" or "they agreed to the conditions" are used in North America but not "they agreed a price" or "they agreed the conditions".

Synonyms

• (harmonize in opinion): concur, harmonize; See also Thesaurus:agree
• (yield assent): accede, come around, give way; See also Thesaurus:accede or Thesaurus:assent
• (yield assent to): approve, set
• (come to terms or to a common resolve): bargain, deal, engage; See also Thesaurus:bargain
• (be conformable): coincide, correspond, match, resemble
• (do well): fit, suit
• (grammar):
• (law):

Antonyms

• disagree

Derived terms

• disagree
• agreement

Related terms

• gree

Translations

Further reading

• agree in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• agree in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Eager, aeger, eager, eagre, geare, æger

Middle English

Verb

agree

1. Alternative form of agreen

English

Etymology

From Middle English writen, from Old English wr?tan (“to incise, engrave, write, draw, bestow by writing”), from Proto-West Germanic *wr?tan, from Proto-Germanic *wr?tan? (“to carve, write”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey- (“to rip, tear”). Cognate with West Frisian write (“to wear by rubbing, rip, tear”), Dutch wrijten (“to argue, quarrel”), Middle Low German wrîten (“to scratch, draw, write”) (> Low German wrieten, rieten (“to tear, split”)), German reißen (“to tear, rip”), Norwegian rita (“to rough-sketch, carve, write”), Swedish rita (“to draw, design, delineate, model”), Icelandic rita (“to cut, scratch, write”), German ritzen (“to carve, scratch”), Proto-Slavic *ryti (“to carve, engrave, dig”), Polish ry? (“to engrave, dig”), Czech rýt (“to engrave, dig”). See also rit and rat.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: r?t, IPA^(key): /?a?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: right, rite, wright

Verb

write (third-person singular simple present writes, present participle writing, simple past wrote or (archaic) writ, past participle written or (archaic) writ or (obsolete) ywriten)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

2. (transitive) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).
3. (transitive) To send written information to.

4. (transitive) To show (information, etc) in written form.

5. (ditransitive with relative clause) To convey a fact to someone via writing.
6. (intransitive) To be an author.

7. (computing, intransitive, with to) To record data mechanically or electronically.

8. (transitive, South Africa, Canada, of an exam, a document, etc.) To fill in, to complete using words.

9. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

10. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.
11. (finance) To sell (an option or other derivative).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (form letters, words or symbols in order to communicate): inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or imprecisely)
• (be the author of): author, pen
• (send (a letter) to): to post
• (show (information, etc) in written form): display, indicate, mark, show
• (computing: store (data)): save, store
• (fill in, complete): sit (Commonwealth)
• See also Thesaurus:write

Antonyms

• (computing: store (data)): load, read, retrieve

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

write (plural writes)

1. The act or style of writing.
   • 1938, The Bankers Monthly (volume 55, page 591)

     The pen also gives a better write than the ordinary counter pen. The ink stand cannot be stolen, for it is fastened to the counter or desk.

2. (computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

   How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?

   • 2006, MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)

     In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes, the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.

Derived terms

• quick-write

References

• write in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• write in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• twier, twire

Middle English

Verb

write

1. Alternative form of writen

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wr?ta, from Proto-Germanic *wr?tan?. Cognate with English write, Dutch wrijten.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vrit?/

Verb

write

1. to rip, to tear
2. to be painful, to sting

Inflection

Further reading

“write”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011